Big savings on The Walking Dead this week, get episode 1 free

Hello everyone! I know it has been a little while coming, but I’m very happy to announce that we’ve teamed up with the guys at Telltale Games to bring you some great savings on the multi-award-winning series The Walking Dead.

Inspired by Robert Kirkman’s original comic books, The Walking Dead is a five-part series in which you play as Lee Everett, a convicted criminal who has been given a second chance at life in a world that has been devastated by a zombie outbreak.

With corpses returning to life and survivors stopping at nothing to maintain their own safety, protecting an orphaned girl named Clementine may offer him his only chance of redemption in a world gone to hell.

To help get those of you new to the series in the mood for more, Telltale has generously offered to supply The Walking Dead Episode 1: A New Day completely free for the duration of the promotion. Can’t say fairer than that, surely?

These discounts will go live as soon as the store updates on Wednesday 20th March and run until Wednesday 3rd April, so make sure you grab them while you can.

Was thinking of getting the disced version so I don’t have to download and install, but this is a good deal. Will definitely check out the first eps and probably get the others too. Don’t like the TV series but the Heavy rain influences get me interested.

Hi Chris, not related question but please respond. Is there any chance of release “Z” on PSN Store? It’s a classic and briliant PSOne game. Not so long ago it was re-released on iOS but controls are weird. I prefer buttons you know :).

Are you sure about 10€? While SCEA usually simply goes 50-75% off, SCEE bases it’s additional 10-25% for Plus usually on the reduced priced, not the full price. Thus I’d expect to see a 11.25€ price tag for the full season, not 10€.

With episode 1 being free, it would then be cheaper to get the 4 remaining episodes for the half price. It really wouldn’t be the first example where it makes more sense to purchase the content of a bundle separately. Happens frequently enough with DLC bundles.

Anyway, waited long enough to see that sale so I won’t let it pass. I ignored all Steam sales for TWD as I consider it to be the perfect couch game and finally …

Can you confirm that no Walking Dead episode will be added to the PS+ IGC for at least one year? Without it I wouldn’t touch this. Also labelling this as a season pass is totally confusing. You need to feed that back to Telltale.

Hi Chris! I was wondering if there are any plans to bring The Walking Dead series to Playstation Vita at some point in the future?

With a super busy working week and a pretty hectic home-life (don’t we all right?) I probably do as much as 90% of my gaming on handheld systems. Out of that block of say, give or take, a couple of hours per day, it’s my Vita that gets the lions share. I still dip into my iPad for the odd quick ‘fix’, but since trading in my Nintendo 3DS XL last October, I’m loving my Vita for proper grown-up gaming thrills.

I love point-and-click adventure games, I always have, and I’m a big fan of The Walking Dead episodic series too. Indeed I have all five episodes on iOS, but I reckon it’d be so much cooler Vita-style. Other P&C adventure games are making the jump from console/PC to handheld (often via iOS – like the utterly fabulous Machinarium for example). My thinking is that if they run on tiny iPhone’s and iPod’s, it pretty much stands to reason that they’d absolutely rock on Vita’s OLED five-incher right?!

Like I said, I love point-and-click adventure games and I love my Playstation Vita. I’d just so love to see them intertwine a little. Okay, a lot. As well as The Walking Dead, and the previously mentoned Machinarium – and countless others – I’d particularly love to see gorgeous pixel art adventure Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, cult hero Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective and the wonderfully timeless Monkey Island games make the jump to Vita.

Either way, with the masses of potential offered by Vita’s connectivity with the upcoming PS4, I definitely predict exciting times ahead for the handheld corner of the gaming community.

Chris,
Great news about the Walking Dead discounts. Only problem with PSN & especially Plus is I dont have enough time to play all the stuff Im getting over last few months…keep it coming tho

Any plans for Mass Effect 3 DLC discounts soon? Or maybe a bundle with all three pieces?
I already had ME3 when it came to plus last month but id like to take a look at the DLC. However at around £32 for the lot, its expensive especially as ive heard very mixed reviews about Omega & Leviathan.

That’s the whole issue with PS+ now. You’re wary about buying anything because you know there’s a good chance it will land on the IGC. It really needs sorted. If I was a developer I’d avoid PSN like the zombie hoard. Plus how can you actually justify selling the season pass for more than the individual episodes? That’s underhanded.

if want to play a game just buy it or wait till it reduces in price, or wait for an indefinite amount of time to see if it will become free on ps+. the latter might not happen, so in that case you’d never play it?

there are gonna be some games you already played/own in the igc. it’s inevitable.

This is what you get when you sign up for Plus. You can’t ever know exactly what is going to come down the line, but you pay for the opportunity to get such great games either free or at a discount. Not just that, but the chance to try out games you may never have even considered buying and discovering new favourite games and series. How can they guarantee what games will be sold free 12 months down the line, or even 2 months down the line? No one would pay for the games at all and just wait for the Plus discount/freebie!

Plus is a service of taking chances and seeing what comes down the line, but the price of the service is so amazing (I just bought another year for £20 at GAME!) that you really can’t be complaining when you can’t predict what will come to the service.